If you get stuck with this guy for ENGL 10 I'm sorry. If you have the chance to wait another quarter to get another professor do it. The lectures will put you to sleep and the books are terrible. Only good things are TAs do the grading and there's minimal assignments.

Professor Douglass really tries to make this class as interesting as possible for lower div English and mixed majors. He chooses non canonical texts and digital literature to engage students. Really does the very best he can for a class of 500 and makes undergrads feel like they matter

His lectures are not organized or planned. He stands on stage and seems to make up whatever he is going to say right then and there. There is no point or purpose to gather. This course is the worst I have ever had yet.

Professor Douglass is overly confusing and his class expectations are unclear. I didn't gain anything by going to lecture. I still have no idea what I was supposed to have learned from his class and it's now finals week. Grades consist of three homework assignments, section participation/lecture attendance, a final paper, and a final exam.

Professor Douglass's lectures are quite possibly the longest and most pointless lectures I've ever encountered at UCSB. I mean, he's a great guy but he seems like he just talks endlessly to fill up the class time, constantly repeating things or talking forever about insignificant things. There's 3 main novels you read, along with many assignments.

I took ENGL10 with Jeremy in Winter of 16. Jeremy's lectures go off on SO many tangents that I never know what the actual lecture is about. He doesn't seem prepared. I once went to his office hours and talked with him about a grade that I wasn't sure about from a TA, & he changed it and gave me an A. There are better classes to get an A in though